we had tim roamer on the democratic side of the house who went around -- >> guest: bob kerrey. >> guestbob kerrey was very helpful in the senate, but we didn't have anybody talking to the republican house leadership, and they were the audience we needed most because they were the most wary of the commission, the most worried about us and, eventually, the most hostile to us. and i think communications being all important, had we done a better job of bringing them along and communicating with them all the way along, i think we wouldn't have those problems at the end where they were fighting our relations twea and fighting the end of the commission and giving us all sorts of problems and the extension and all of that. we hadn't kept in proper touch with them, and we should have. >> host: lee, anything that you remember? >> guest: well, i think we spent far too much time arguing about access. and we should have pushed that harder earlier. >> host: ah. >> >> guest: so that we could have spent a lot more time and atlantic on the recommendations -- deliberation on the recommendations. however,

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